Tents in the Clouds
Subtitle: The First Women's Himalayan Expedition
Edition: 1st U.S. Ed edition
Publisher: Seal Press (WA)
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781580050333
Subjects: Climbing & mountaineering; Travel writing; Women And Sports; Himalaya Mountains; Mountain Climbing; Women's Studies - General; Sports & Recreation; Sports; India; General; Women's Studies - History; Asia - India; Women mountaineers; Description; Description and travel; Mountaineering
First sentence: OUR EXPEDITION was barely two months in the field, but it took us nine months to plan it.
Description: Going where no one had gone before, In 1955, Monica Jackson, Elizabeth Stark and Evelyn Camrass undertook the first all women{u2019}s expedition in the Himalayas. The three women pooled their resources, sailed to India, flew to Kathmandu, and trekked the remote Jugal Himal, a far-flung, hitherto unexplored region of the Himalaya. Written over 40 years ago, this book documents this unprecedented adventure. Part travel journal and part historical account, it's a lively story of the expedition's achievements. Theirs was the first ascent of an unknown peak over 22,000 feet; and as they crossed daunting passes and pristine valleys, they investigated the flora and fauna and corrected maps of one of the least accessible areas of the world.